Preparation
Read this short overview of the “American Dream“
Read Chapter 8,Stratification and Social Mobility in the US, in your text. Your assignment must be informed by information from the chapter. Textbook: Schaefer, R.T. (2019). Sociology: A brief introduction (13th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. No outside/web sources, please.
Watch this video on Social Mobility and the American Dream
Review the Purdue OWL for instructions and examples of formatting in text citations and references. In-text citations go in the paragraph and the reference list is located after the Word Count at the end of your paper.
Assignment
Often the argument is made that people can be economically successful/secure in the US if they “just work hard enough.” From what you learned in the chapter and the American Dream video, how realistic is this belief?
If someone made a comment about the poor being poor because they don’t work hard enough, what would you tell her/him from the chapter and the video to give provide a more accurate understanding about success, poverty, and mobility?
